“Woodseers are insects which I dare say you know very well whether it be the proper name I don’t know this what we call them & that you know is sufficient for us–they lye in little white notts of spittle on the backs of leaves & flowers. How they come I don’t know but they […]
INSECTS
JEAN-HENRI FABRE: THE HOMER OF THE INSECT WORLD
Jean-Henri Fabre’s Book of Insects is a 1921 classic, with beautiful, tissue-paper-protected color plates by E.J. Detmold. If you can get your hands on a copy (I checked mine out from the L.A. Public Library), you’ll discover a whole wondrous world. The glow-worm, the grub, the locust, the mason-wasp–all your favorite insect pals are here. […]